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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: CCFOUND and more
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 15:22:59 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8203.977977379@ocs3.ocs-net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Dec 2000 21:11:14 BST." <20001226211114.A1511@werewolf.able.es>

On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 21:11:14 +0100, 
"J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es> wrote:
>Solving other things, I have realized that all that problem on fast
>CC detection (CCFOUND) is easily solved by doing:
>	CC  := $(.................)
>instead of
>	CC = $(.........)
>The find of the suitable CC command is repeated many times along a 
>kernel build. And CC is not anything that can change along a kernel
>build. So former syntax solves all the problems, CC detection can
>be so complex as you want because is done only once.
>
>Is there something I am missing ?

Yes.  Some arch files change CROSS_COMPILE after CC has been set and
expect the change to flow into the definition of CC.  This "feature"
only works because '=' stores the value as text and reevaluates the
text each time, automatically picking up any changes to CROSS_COMPILE.
Using CC := might break m68k and mips.  The makefile redesign for 2.5
will fix this problem once and for all.

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-12-28  4:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-26 20:11 CCFOUND and more J . A . Magallon
2000-12-28  4:22 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2000-12-29  1:27   ` J . A . Magallon

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